Guba, Azerbaijan

Here are a few photos from my wonderful day trip to a region called Guba. It is in the northern part of Azerbaijan, about 20 minutes from the Russian border. I was guided by two local attorneys that we work with and highlights include: off-roading it in a Mercedes (the status car of choice), drinking tea in the mountains, having lunch in the open air in the woods (all of this served to us of course on fine china by lovely local cayhanas and restaurants), being caught in the road by a massive multi-herd sheep crossing with the infamous four-assed sheep, being visited at lunch by a MASSIVE bright bright blue beetle twice the size of my thumb, walking along mountain streams, having ice cream in a tiny and beautiful all-Jewish town in the north where it is a source of great national pride that people of different religions (Muslim and Jewish) live peacefully side by side, and watching a group of ten fully veiled women on a picnic play volleyball in hijab. It was a truly wonderful weekend.